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Panic attacks highlight stress at shelters for migrant kids

by Amy TaxinJulie Watson
| June 14, 2021 1:06 PM

Paramedics were called regularly to treat children suffering from panic attacks so severe their hands would constrict into balls and their bodies would shake. The outbursts often occurred after other children were taken away to be reunited with families, dashing the hopes of those left behind at the largest emergency shelter set up by the Biden administration to hold minors who had crossed the U.S.-Mexico border alone.

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